Margaret Lucy Tyler

Homoeopathic Drug Pictures

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 LYCOPODIUM
(Club Moss)
ONE of Hahnemann's precious gifts, and one that exhibits and
justifies his teachings in regard to potentization.
Of Lycopodium, he writes : " This dust-like powder, which
is yellowish, smooth to the touch, is obtained from the ears of a
moss, Lycopodium clavatum, which grows in the forests of Russia
and Finland " [also in this country.—ED.]. " Towards the end of
Summer, the ears are dried, and afterwards beaten.
" When thrown into a flame, it flashes up, and has been used
to cover pills which easily adhere to one another, and to protect
sore places in folds against the friction occasioned by walking
and otherwise. It floats upon liquids without being dissolved,
has neither taste nor smell, and when in its natural crude condi-
tion, has almost no effect upon the health of man . . .
" This drug has wonderful medicinal properties, which can only
be disclosed by trituration and succussion . . .
" A moderate dose acts from forty to fifty days. It may be
repeated after the intermediate use of another antipsoric, but
a second dose acts less favourably than the first.
" It acts with especial benefit, when homoeopathically indicated,
after the action of Calc. shall have passed over . . ."
Kent says : " Though classed among inert substances, and
thought to be useful only for rolling up allopathic pills, Hahne-
mann brought it into use and developed its power by attenuation.
It is a monument to Hahnemann. It enters deep into the life.
. . . There is nothing about man that Lycopodium does not
rouse into tumult .
This " unmoistenable powder "—inert, yet flashing brilliantly
" when thrown into a flame " has been also used in the manu-
facture of fireworks. When the spores are crushed, an oily
substance is liberated ; and it takes two solid hours of trituration
with sugar of milk (we are told) to its initial preparation as a
remedy at once potent and unique in its properties for good.
To start with, let us reproduce, more or less, one of those little
old Drug Pictures, which boil down to their lowest dimensions
what we know and find absolutely essential to the employment
of a remedy . . .

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LYC. is one of our most constantly used drugs. It does not
always stare you in the face as the patient walks in ; but a few
questions will generally have you hot on the trail.
Ask early as to time of day. This patient says, " worse after-
noon, or worse 4 p.m., or worse 4 to 8 p.m.," and you look to see
that he conforms to the l.vc. type, and enquire further.
Kent says : " Poor little Paul Dombey needed a dose of Lye.,
but Dombey did not know it, and lost his son."
In Lye. the mind is better developed than the body. Lye.
is apt to look sickly and wrinkled—skinny, especially in the upper
part of the body. The forehead may be frowning or wrinkled,
and if it is after early dinner, the cheeks or nose are apt to be red,
to the patient's great discomfort.
Anticipation is a very useful little rubric. Everybody knows
that Gels, and Arg. nit. have it. But Lye. has it too ; and Ars.
and Med. ; and (though fewer people know this) Carbo veg.,
Phos. a., Pb., Sil. and Thuja. These last have to be hunted in
other parts of the repertory. It is well to add them to the
rubric.
Years ago one of our very good prescribers made me under-
stand a phase of the Lye. mentality. He explained the terrors
of anticipation as they affect Lye. Lye. has to meet his share-
holders or his constituents with an important speech, and knows
that he will flounder, and hesitate, and forget his points; is
obsessed with the idea that he will make a mess of it. The dreaded
moment arrives : he gets on to his legs, warms to his work, sails
along in blissful self-forgetfulness, to sit down feeling that he has
made the speech of his life. It was all joy and fluency ; he not
only remembered all his points, but made new ones as he went
along. But—he will have the same terror next time, unless he
gets his stimulus, because he is Lycopodium.
Or again, Lye. wants to be alone—with someone in the next
room, because—he FEARS to be alone ! His desire for solitude
is in italics ; his fear, when alone, is in black type. Drugs that
have these opposite states in big type are most interesting. (Lack.
has loquacity in the highest type, rapid speech and loquacity ;
and, also in the highest type, slowness of speech ! This is not
always realized.)
Lye. has plenty of FEARS—fear alone, of crowds, of dark, of
death, of ghosts, of people.
Lye. has all the DYSPEPSIAS you can imagine. It competes
with Carbo veg. and China for the distinction of being the most
flatulent remedy. Lye. will come and tell you that for days
together she is distended like a drum, and has to loosen her

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clothing. After food she is distended and tense, almost to bursting,

and cannot bear the pressure and constriction of her clothes. Or,
she feels famishing, and after a couple of mouthfuls she is bloated
and full, and can eat no more. Or, she may feel absolutely full
up, yet hungry. For Lye. has in black type the easy satiety, and
also the opposite in black type, " hunger p.c." or " hunger p.c.
with full and tense stomach ".
The Lye. FOOD CRAVINGS are for sweet things—for hot drinks.
Lye. loves, but is made ill by oysters : Hates coffee and meat.
We all know the RIGHT-SIDEDNESS of Lye., and the direction
of symptoms, from right to left, or from above downward.
URINARY symptoms are important. Red sand in the clear
urine ; urine that is acrid and excoriates . . . thus you
may spot a Lye. baby by the red sand in the napkin, or by the rash
where urine has inflamed the skin ; and you may cure its nephritis
and dropsy—as one has seen.
Lye. is AN INTELLECTUAL, as we said, with self-distrust. And
Lye. has intellectual sufferings and failures and confusions when
ill. Loss of memory. Speaks wrong words and syllables. Makes
mistakes in writing—mis-spells—omits words, or letters. May
realize that " Z " is the last letter of the alphabet, and be unable
to supply its name. To such a length may this go, that he may
be unable to read—may be able to write what he wishes, yet
unable to read what he has written.
Our doctors tell of great cures with Lye. of literary persons
unable, after an attack of 'FLU to get to work again. The
intellectual sequelae of 'flu often call for Lye., while the neurotic
ones (to almost insanity) need Scvtdlaria, and those with long-
lasting weakness and chilliness, find their rapid help in China.
There is no disease, acute or chronic, where Lye. may not be
the remedy—in a Lycofodium patient ! Toothache about 4 p.m.
(one has seen this). Eruptions that wake up horribly at 4 p.m.
(this also). Lingering pneumonias, where the temperature is
found to rise at 4 p.m. and drop after 8 p.m. Diphtheria where the
membrane starts on the right side and crosses to the left, the
mouth and tongue not crying out for Merc. Or, post-nasal
diphtherias that descend. Lye. has also the post-diph. paralysis
(its usual great remedy being Gels.) where food and drink regurgi-
tate through the nose. Kidney troubles, as said, where the urine
inflames and reddens the skin wherever it touches.
Two useful little rubrics may put you on to Lye. Right foot
cold, left normal. Burning pain like red-hot coals between scapula.
(Phos. has this, and a very few other drugs.) These small rubrics
are often very useful, if only to clinch the diagnosis of the remedy.

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If you get < afternoon
< 4 p.m.
< 4—8 p.m.
desires hot drinks
craves sweets
acidity and wind
bloating
with its urinary troubles, you will not go far wrong if you scribble
down LYCOPODIUM.

BLACK LETTER SYMPTOMS (Allen,

Hering, with some of Hahnemann's italics)

MENTALS. Dread of men: of solitude: irritable and melancholy.

Weeps all day, cannot calm herself. Worse 4 / 0 8 p.m.
Sensitive : even cries when thanked.
Satiety of life, particularly mornings in bed.
Amativeness, and amorousness.
Sensitive, irritable: peevish and cross on waking. Easily
excited to anger; cannot bear opposition, and is speedily beside
herself.
Ailments from fright, anger, mortification or vexation, with
reserved displeasure.
Oversensitive to pain. Patient is beside herself. (Cham.)
Speaks wrong words and syllables. Selects wrong words.
Becomes confused about everyday things.
Great apprehensiveness in the pit of the stomach. (Kali c.)

HEAD. Vertigo in the morning when and after rising from bed,
so that he reels back and forth.
Throbbing in brain on leaning head back during the day.
Throbbing headache after every paroxysm of coughing.
With the cough, shattering in temples and in chest.
Pain in temples as if screwed together, worse during menses.
Rush of blood to head on waking.
Excessive falling of hair : hair becomes grey too soon.

EYES, distressing pain, as if dry, with nightly agglutination.

Styes on lids, more towards inner canthi. Ulceration and
redness of eyelids.
Evening light blinds him very much : cannot see anything on
the table.

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Soaring, humming, rushing, etc., in EARS .
Loss of hearing in connection with otorrhaea.
Eczema of ears, with thick crusts and fissures.

Violent catarrh, with swelling of NOSE. Stopped catarrh, so that he

cannot get breath at night. Complete stoppage of nose : child's
breath stopped during sleep, frequently for fifteen seconds, even
while the mouth is open. Fan-like motion of the alts nasi.

FACE yellowishgrey.
Spasmodic twitching of facial muscles.

TEETHpainful when chewing and when touched.

Numerous blisters on the tongue. Ulcers on and under tongue.

Feeling as if a ball rose, from below, up into the THROAT. Throat

feels too tight on swallowing : nothing goes down : food and drink
regurgitate through the nose. (Gels., Diph.)

Excessive appetite, followed by distension of abdomen.

Hunger remains immediately after eating, though the STOMACH
and abdomen are full and tense.
She cannot eat at all: is constantly satiated and without appetite:
whatever she eats goes against her, even to vomiting.
Sudden satiety and great thirst.
Immediately after a meal, is full, bloated, distended.
Loss of appetite at first mouthful: weight in stomach after eating.
A sour eructation, the taste does not remain in mouth; but acid
gnaws in the stomach.
Incomplete burning eructations, which only rise to the pharynx,
where they cause burning, for several hours.
Epigastrium extremely sensitive to touch and tight clothing.
Digestion seems to proceed very slowly.
Discomfort in the stomach after eating a little.
Cramp in the stomach which is much distended.
Pressure in stomach, as if she had eaten too much.
Pressure in stomach, as if over-distended, in the evening, after
eating a little.
Pressure, heaviness in stomach, after eating a little in the afternoon.
Pair in epigastrium caused by coughing.

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She dares not eat to satiety, because if she does, she has an
unpleasant, distressed feeling in HEPATIC REGION.
Pressive pain, hepatic region, on breathing.
Sore pressive pain as from a blow in right hypochondriac region,
aggravated by touch.
Liver is painful to touch.
Pain in left hypochondriac region, afternoon.
Violent gall-stone' colic.
A scites from liver affections, after abuse of alcohol.
Something heavy felt lying in left ABDOMEN, not affecting the
breathing, but constantly felt while walking, sitting and lying.
Distension of the abdomen from gases. Relieved by emission of
flatus.
Grunting and gurgling in abdomen.
Whole abdomen distended by flatulence after a stool.
Much flatus accumulates here and there in abdomen, in hypo-
chondria, even in the back in region of ribs and chest, causing tension
and bubbling, always relieved by empty eructations.
Immediately after eating the abdomen is constantly full, distended
and tense. Tension with incarceration of flatus.
Sensation of something moving up and down in stomach and
bowels. (Comp. Crocus, Thuja, Sanicula.)
Hernia right side.
ANUS painfully closed.
The rectum so frequently contracted that it protrudes during a hard
stool.
Hemorrhoids painful to touch.
Great tendency to excoriations about anus : bleed easily.
Itching and moist, tender eruption.
First part of stool lumpy, the second soft.
Aching in KIDNEY before and after urination.
Some red sediment in urine.
Red, or reddish yellow sand in urine.
Turbid, milky urine, with offensive purulent sediment. Dis-
position to calculi.
Renal colic, particularly right ureter to bladder.
Urging to urinate : must wait long before it will pass, or inability
with constant bearing down : supports abdomen with hands.
Night COUGH affecting stomach and diaphragm, mostly before
sunset.
Cough overpowering, evening before going to sleep, as if larynx
tickled with a feather, with scanty expectoration.

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Tickling cough as from sulphur fumes in larynx.
Difficult breathing, as if he had inhaled sulphur fumes.
Grey, salt-tasting expectoration. Dyspnoea : during
sleep ; from every exertion. CHEST feels oppressed and
raw internally. Stitches left chest, and during
inspiration.

Hering gives " Hydropericardium ". (-Irs.)

BACK, burning as from glowing coals between the scapulae ( PHOS.,

KALI BICH ., etc.).
Severe backache, better by passing urine
One foot hot, the other cold.
Desire to go into the open air. (Puls., etc.)
Her symptoms are aggravated ut 4 p.m. : at 8 p.m. she feels better,
but weak.
Headache, cough, fever, chill, EVERYTHING \\ ORSE 4-8 P . M .
Nervous excitement : prostration of mind and body. Nervous
debility.
Hungry WHEN WAKING at night.
On waking, cross, kicks, scolds : or wakes terrified : unrefreshed.
Many years ago, one was asked to go to the " other end of
nowhere " to prescribe for a small boy—very small, yet already
a great cricketer at five years old. The trouble was recent :—
tormenting " frequency." One stood and watched him playing
cricket on the sands with the other little boys, and every few
minutes he had to rush away for relief. All this was-very puzzling
to his parents. A few Lycopodwm symptoms emerged, with this
one, also new to him—that he " woke up ugly " as the Americans
express it, " crying and cross ". Lye. quickly cured ; and,
incidentally, hammered home a point which we will pass on . . .
Lye. is, in almost everything, worse in the evening and better in
the morning, except, as one discovered over this case, that it is
(mentally) " ugly on waking ".
It is puzzle-cases that bite into the memory, and their triumphs
that teach one to know drugs.
Hughes quotes Dr. David Wilson in regard to the fan-like
movement of the alae nasi noted in the pathogenesis of Lye. " When
this symptom is clearly marked, no matter through what organ
or tissue the symptoms of any attack of illness may manifest
themselves in children or young people, I venture to submit that
the whole group of the phenomena in such attacks will be found

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under Lycopodium." Dr. David Wilson was a great prescriber
and, note! he does not say " when the alae nasi work, give Lye.,"
but " / submit that the whole group of the phenomena in such attacks
will be found under Lycopodium."
It is in respiratory affections that this symptom is generally
seen. This is the classical picture of a Lycopodium pneumonia,
for instance.
_ , , ,
Frowning forehead.
Working of the alae nasi.
Temperature rises each day at 4 p.m. tillS p.m.,and then declines.
In a pneumonia that tends to hang fire, this last symptom
puts one straight on to Lye. which finishes the case.- Kent speaks
of its use " in the advanced stage of pneumonia, in the period of
hepatization, with the wrinkled face and brow, the flapping wings
of the nose and the scanty expectoration. The right lung is most
affected, or is affected first in double pneumonia ".
In a Lye. diphtheria, as said, the trouble begins on the right
side, and may spread to the left : we have seen such a case : but
with none of the foulness of mouth and tongue that cries aloud
for one of the Mercuries.
Lycopodium is one of the great polycrests—the Drugs of Many
Uses. But the above black letter symptoms, the " caused and
many times cured symptoms ", which are classical in our school,
bring out its important points of attack for evil and for good.
The drug, as said, suits intellectuals ; (rather skinny and old-
looking intellectuals) ; with more mental than bodily vigour.
Hence it proves subversive, and especially curative of mentality ;
affecting MEMORY , and restoring those who, after sickness or
strain, are afflicted with confusion and mental tiredness and
incompetence.
Again, its subversive effects and therefore its curative powers
come strongly into play in the digestive and .urinary regions.
One remembers one " new " patient in particular who for days
had been almost bursting with flatulence and distension, and had
had to loosen all'her clothing ; and how quickly Lye. put her right.
NASH says, " Lycopodium with Sulphur and Calcarea form the
leading trio of Hahnemann's anti-psoric remedies. They all
act very deeply. Lycopodium acts favourably in all ages, but
particularly upon old people and children . . . on persons of
keen intellect but feeble muscular development : lean people.
. . . The Lycopodium subject is sallow, sunken, with premature
lines in the face ; looks older than he is. Children are weak,
with well-developed heads, but puny, sickly bodies. . . . This
is one of the trio of flatulent remedies, Carbo veg. and China

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being the other two . . . remember, while China bloats the
whole abdomen, Carbo veg. prefers the upper, and Lycopodium
the lower parts. . . ." Guernsey points out here, " China
has fulness after a full, normal meal; Lye. after eating a little."
" Constipation predominates ; and like Nux there may be frequent
and ineffectual desire for stool, but while that of Nux is caused
by irregular peristaltic action, that of Lye. seems to be caused by
a spasmodic contraction of the anus, which prevents the stool
and causes great pain. . . . Lye. has often saved neglected, mal-
treated or imperfectly cured cases of pneumonia from running into
consumption. . . ." We have given its characteristic
indications elsewhere :—the frowning forehead, the flapping alae
nasi, the 4-8 p.m. aggravation of fever, etc.
Lye. is down as a chilly remedy : yet it is one of the few
remedies that appears in the Repertory in the rubric, Better
when cold. (loo., PULS., with Loch., Nat. mur., Sulph. and a few
others.) But Lye. is generally better from warm or hot things,
drinks, etc., and even better warm in bed.
A few additional points from KENT, who reiterates, stresses
and amplifies " Lycopodium emaciates above, while the extremi-
ties are fairly well-nourished. . . . The Lye. patient cannot
eat oysters. It does not seem to matter what is the matter with
him, if he eats oysters he gets sick . . . headache, pain in the
ovary, cough—after eating oysters. Oysters seem a poison to
Lye., just as onions are a poison to the Thuja patient. The
Oxalic acid patient cannot eat strawberries. If you are ever
caught in a place where you have a patient get sick after eating
strawberries, tomatoes or oysters, and you have no homoeopathic
remedies at hand, it is a good thing to remember that a piece of
cheese will digest strawberries, or tomatoes, or oysters, in a few
minutes."
" The eruptions of Lye. and sometimes the ulcers and abscesses
of Lye. are better from something cool. The soothing thing to
Lye. is something cooling, while the soothing thing to Ars. is
heat. . . . The old ladies of the house will want to do some-
thing, and put warm cloths or warm water on the suffering part,
but these will make the Lye. patient worse."
^?. • " Lye. is tired. A tired mind, a chronic fatigue, forget fulness,
ersion to undertaking anything new, to appearing in any new
role ; aversion to his own work.
" Taciturnity : desires to be alone. If there were two adjacent
rooms in the house, the Lye. patient would go into one and stay
there, though very glad to have someone in the other. That is the
state of the Lye. mind. . . .

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" Lye. often breaks down and'weeps when meeting a friend.
. . . An unusual sadness with weeping comes over this patient
on receiving a gift. At the slightest joy. Lye. weeps . . . even
cries when thanked . . .
" Left foot cold, the other warm . . . red sand in urine,
red pepper deposit . . ."
In regard to throats and diphtheria, and the " right to left "
of Lye. and the " left to right " of Lack. Kent points out that
" Lack, is better from cold, and has spasms of the throat from
attempting to drink warm drinks, while Lye. is better from warm
drinks, though sometimes better from cold drinks." It is important to
know this, or one is apt to discard Lye., when otherwise indicated.
To become a rapid and at all correct prescriber—for the bulk
of the patients that crowd in to a hospital out-patient clinic, or
for panel work, there are some dozen remedies that one needs to
make friends with, so as to be able to recognize them after a
minimum of glances and questionings. Such are SEPIA, SULPHUR,
LYCOPODIUM, CALCAREA, SILICA, NATRUM MUR., ARSENICUM,
BRYONIA—Hahnemann's anti-psorics all!—and for acute work,
ACONITE, BELLADONNA, again BRYONIA, RHUS, GELSEMIUM,
BAPTISIA, and a few other indispensables. These are all remedies
of distinct personality, and should not be confused—when once
their inwardness is grasped. It is to make these remedies easily
recognizable that in our little drug pictures we reiterate, and try
to produce a snapshot of one or another, with its various uses.
Such an assortment of drugs at one's fingertips should make
homoeopathic prescribing, in a large proportion of the common
complaints, comparatively easy and sure.

LYCOPODIUM IN ANEURISM
DR. HUGHES (Pharmacodynamics) mentions a " curious point " in
regard to Lycopodium. He says : " Lycopodium has occasionally
been suggested for aneurism, but I had thought little of it, though
in a case treated by Dr. Madden and myself what seemed to be
an aortic aneurism ceased to be discoverable while we were giving
the medicine for the general health. But I have since seen most
striking results from it in an unmistakable carotid aneurism in an
old lady, for whose dyspeptic symptoms the remedy had often
proved serviceable. The shooting pains which accompanied
the swelling disappeared in the first three days of taking the
Lycopodium ; and in a fortnight the enlargement of the artery
was reduced to one-half, at which point it has since continued
stationary, giving her no pain or inconvenience."

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